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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I think it is. We have a large amount of tooling in existence to inspect text based formats. Binary format inspection requires new tooling to be written and deployed. This is a major barrier. I may be a bit old-school, but I learned HTTP
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I agree. They say you should write to your audience and this feels like the author did and it’s targeted at an audience - that, well, is not HN. I wish it had been targeted at HN - as then I would have read it. But after the first couple o
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
The problem is that the only people with data are the Credit Card companies and the VPN providers, and they both have dogs in this fight. We wouldn't believe the numbers they released, if they released numbers, which they probably won
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Scope matters. It’s quite different to assume that people can look at the outside of any particular letter, than it is to assume that people are building a database of all your mail, and doing social network analysis on it. The results of t
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I’m not sure. I’d say allowing some editorialization in the title would have made a better submission. Say, title: "DevDocs: An organized, and consistent interface to Web Documentation", with the same URL.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Yeah - particularly since reeder syncing is now via feedbin which is 2$ a month. Which makes this service 84$ a year. A bit steep in my opinion - particularly the reeder part. I'm willing to pay up front for software that runs on my
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
X4’s first line on Karma affecting your mood and life is dead on. Divorcing your self-esteem from these social indicators is important, but difficult as the whole point of them is social coercion. Which in a round about way brings us back
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I, personally, would not suggest that intelligence services don’t need to exist. I would however suspect that civilian intelligence services are overly large, ambitious and funded for the goal of informing America of threats. That’s a debat
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Yes. Or at least exist at what scale, for what purpose, at "peacetime". History has taught us over and over huge standing armies will be drawn into conflict (often quite easily) and wars ensue. Perhaps the same is true for huge s
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
teawithcarl did just call SCMP "a top HK newspaper" which is a much lower bar, than a global "top newspaper". And frankly one I agree with from just wandering around HK for a few days (spread out over many years). And o
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
History books do not portray all leaders, even American leaders, in a favorable light. A perusal of history books will come up with quite a number of people portrayed very poorly indeed. A glaring example: Nixon.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I don’t know - I use zencoder and zendesk. Just because your product has a wide and diverse user base, like zendesk’s, doesn’t mean it’s easily confused with every other product who’s name is related. I don’t assume there is an affiliation
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This is a horrible, convoluted workflow - with good reasons for being that way. Like many I’ve seen graphic designers engage in. Their tools suck, badly, and are just letting them down. I know the difficulty of replacing those tools is hig
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
As do I, a great project!
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Having read this yesterday I was sure it was the reason: In Utah, a 100-Mile Trek With a 4-Year-Old Boy http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/travel/in-utah-a-100-mi... But instead it’s another NY Times a
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I think your plan is right - leaving is the only option. And rocking the boat before you leave is probably not useful to the org, nor helpful to your career. This sucker is going down, and moving along is the right call. As you transferre
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I think this is a correct title but an incorrect subtitle. The problem with spending five dollars on an app for me isn't that it isn't expensive, but rather I've paid five dollars for apps that opened once found to be unusable and never ope
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I like it - but I'd worry about wheather it'd be useful warning oncoming traffic, and if not, how we'll it'd perform in the presence of another more traditional headlight. Still a spiffy idea.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
As you note the problem with voice is social. And I find that I am frequently alone - and there you don't have to worry about the taboo. I think that voice interfaces have a lot of potential in non-social settings. Personally I dictate muc
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I do it about once every 2-3 years. Just last month I misjudged a curb cut while on a bike trail after dark. Before that a railroad crossing, on a angle, grabbed my tire. For me this is not all that rare...
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I disagree, and I've seen it done. In my case it was a very small org, with a very hands off manager. He cared about deadlines and deliverables - he didn't care at all about how things got done. Which mean you could change all of this, by
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This is the case for every hosted mail solution in existence. And external hosting/procesing in the mail space is quite popular from mailgun to google apps. So I don't view this as a major concern. The fact that the maker of this API has a
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
But is it juking the stats or adding another stat? Post fix it seems to me that he has 3 numbers, the number of people who loaded them page, the number who spent enough time to read the first 'graph, and the number engaged enough to move in
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Boy was I not saying that. I’d was rather pointing out that the whole industry was so dysfunctional that if you are so much as surviving in it, you are most likely taking part in that disfunction.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I think that large government subsidies are inevitably going to be needed if you wish to start a car company these days. They may be inevitable if you just want to keep one running - very few car companies have made it through the last deca
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
"Anonymous IP allocation through Heroku Worker Dynos." Is the subtitle of the actual project hosted on github: https://github.com/thnkr/cloak Basically Heroku assigns a new IP address with every app deployment. Redeploy, get new IP.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
That is the day I deleted my account. Which has been annoying on occasion - but less occasions than I'd've thought.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Looking at my threads page I found that I lied: I used to brand-name today. I suck. And brands are unescapable....
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I am opposed as it is implemented in some cases algorithmicly and I've been hellbanned for using the wrong brand name in an on topic comment. I don't use brand names in comments anymore.

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